Spencer "Hiko" Martin (born March 6, 1990) is an American professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who is currently playing for Rogue. He rose into prominence when his team finished third place in the first major CS:GO tournament at ESWC 2012 with the former Area 51. He is mostly known for his lurking, solo site play, and clutching ability. On the side, Hiko was a staff member at Twitch from April 2015 until November 2018.[1][2]

When he was young, he was an avid football, hockey and baseball player but due to a hockey injury he was unable to play sports for a summer allowing him to dedicate significant time to gaming. Starting off with the Nintendo 64, he eventually moved over to games for PC playing anything he could get his hands on. Hiko has mostly funnelled his competitive gaming into Counter-Strike with 1.5, 1.6 and CS:GO. He got into Counter-Strike through one of his friends brothers which ended up making his whole group of friends play this game.

compLexity Gaming would live up to its name not long after acquiring the players formerly of Quantic Gaming including Hiko, the team captain. The team would enjoy a variety of consistent top 4's and beyond even in international events, where the team made the semifinals of DreamHack Winter 2013 where they'd upset CIS superteam Astana Dragons in the quarterfinals before falling to eventual champions Fnatic. Their second major run at EMS One: Katowice 2014 was the worst result under compLexity Gaming but would still outperform compared to iBUYPOWER who had failed to make it out of the group stage at both majors. Following the major in Poland, swag was swapped out for iBUYPOWER's Todd "anger" Williams and later replaced by Michael "shroud" Grzesiek before Cloud9 would acquire the team.

Cloud9 picked up compLexity Gaming prior to ESL One: Cologne 2014 but Cloud9 would not fail to impress for their debut into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Hiko & co. would upset Titan in their opening match closing out the game in overtime before upsetting Team Dignitas in a close Mirage game following a 2v5 with seang@res at 14-14 where caster Anders Blume would yell "Oh my god Hiko! Are you kidding me?!" following the successful clutch. Cloud9 would face eventual champions Ninjas in Pyjamas in their quarterfinal match which ended in close fashion but still remains with memories. Most notably, Hiko's flickshot where Hiko would rotate 180 degrees at Mid Doors on Dust II with just a P2000. The first bullet shot would go straight into Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund's head in the blink of an eye. Anders Blume's reaction on the broadcast would be "WHAT?! Oh my god, INHUMAN REACTIONS!". Cloud9 would unfortunately lose the map 16-14 and later Cobblestone 16-14, ending the Americans' major run with another quarterfinal finish.

In December of 2014, Hiko would join iBUYPOWER - the rival team of Cloud9. The team of the red chimera were delivering better results at the time compared to the blue clouds up in the sky but at this point the players would leave iBUYPOWER and were awaiting an offer to join Evil Geniuses who were planning on entering Counter-Strike: Global Offensive after previously closing their Counter-Strike division in 2012 including the likes of n0thing in the past. Most ultimately, this did not happen in the end as Valve had caught DaZeD, swag and Keven "AZK" Lariviere in a match fixing scandal against NetcodeGuides.com. More information on the match fixing scandal can be found here.

Following the scandal, Hiko remained a free agent while he was working for Twitch and streaming CS:GO on their website. During this time, he stood in for eLevate at CEVO Season 6: Professional along former GX teammate Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham. The American duo at the time were also in talks with Mikail "Maikelele" Bill, Adil "ScreaM" and Håvard "rain" Nygaard about forming an international European team which would go on to join Team Kinguin.[3] The team including Hiko and Skadoodle did not go to fruition since the Americans would need to move to Europe to play and Skadoodle would go on to join Cloud9 to replace ShahZaM additionally.[4]

Hiko would go on to join Nihilum Gaming, reuniting with Semphis whom was also kicked from Cloud9 at the time Skadoodle joined. His new team were unable to live up to their name and were unable to gain good results causing Hiko to later leave the team. Not too long before, Hiko would get an offer to stand in for FlipSid3 Tactics from Ukraine at ESWC 2015 following Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin's visa issues making it to Canada. His ability to stand in was highly influenced by their star player, Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev because he did not trust any of the other potential candidates FlipSid3 Tactics could acquire as a stand-in but Hiko. Fortunately for the team, they were still able to land a semifinal finish falling to Natus Vincere.

In September 2015, not long after leaving Nihilum Gaming, Hiko joined Team Liquid. The team was founded earlier in the year after acquiring the Denial eSports team that upset Cloud9 at the end of 2014. Since then a few roster changes were made including the addition of Hiko but this would end up being one of the team's most successful changes in the long term as the team's results would flourish after Hiko's arrival including qualifying for DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 where Hiko would first be met with autographed stickers. Despite the major not going in their favor at all including a close loss to Virtus.pro and another loss to Ninjas in Pyjamas, the team would continue to improve and even further upon acquiring s1mple in place of Jacob "FugLy" Medina. The addition of s1mple would eventually lead to the team's first major success including a semifinal at MLG Columbus 2016 before choking to Luminosity Gaming and North America's first finals appearance at a major in Cologne. Following the major in Germany, s1mple transferred to Natus Vincere due to him wanting to leave Team Liquid earlier in the year to join a European team again, and he would be replaced by Jacob "Pimp" Winneche from Denmark. At this point, Hiko's last days in Team Liquid were emerging as his performance deteriorated following s1mple's departure along with him being forced to in-game lead due to Valve's coaching nerfs post-Cologne. The team's results began to get worse with time and this would be shown most at the ELEAGUE Atlanta 2018 major where Team Liquid would lose their legend status after a close group stage where they would fall to eventual champions Astralis in the last round of the group stage.

Hiko was given his marching orders in favor of former OpTic Gaming in-game leader Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz. Following the kick, Hiko would stand in for OpTic Gaming for a few events along with former Team Liquid coach Luis "peacemaker" Tadeu acting as interim coach for the team. Hiko's time with OpTic would come to end within a few weeks following poor results since stanislaw's departure to Hiko's former team. In the aftermath of Hiko's time standing in for the green wall, Hiko would host a livestream on Twitch talking about his experiences on Team Liquid and OpTic Gaming amongst other older events.[5].

After nearly six months of being a free agent, Hiko would eventually join the ex-Enigma6 Group core under Rogue following the loss of the American organization's Danish team. The start of the team was a rough road due to the fact that Rogue only signed four players to begin their journey in North America before signing Matthew "Wardell" Bowman Yu not long after, but shortly after Wardell would return to his former team Ghost Gaming. The team would eventually sign Casper "cadiaN" Møller from Rogue's former Danish team which would improve the results Rogue were getting ever so slightly but still not good enough. The community at the time would often criticise the team, mainly at Hiko saying "from a major finalist to this" implying Hiko was on a top team and made the finals of ESL One: Cologne 2016 and then moving down to a low level ESL Pro League team. Unfortunately on the ESL Pro League of things, Rogue placed 12th which meant the team were at risk of being relegated to ESEA Premier if they failed to pass the Relegation. This would additionally be Rogue's first LAN debut for their North American team and they would go on to pass the relegation and keep their place in the Pro League. Following this, Rogue would sign Ronnie "ryx" Bylicki and Hunter "SicK" Mims before replacing the former with Anthony "gMd" Gulmond and later Ricardo "Rickeh" Mulholland from Australia.

Following Rogue's failure to qualify for the New Legends Stage in London, cadiaN would join North with Kevin "kRYSTAL" Amend joining, later to be replaced by former North in-game leader Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen.